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Maize tassels in full blossom.
Millions of pollen grains are ready to fertilize the ovules of ears of maize. This is easy to control because male flowers on the top (tassel as seen) and female flowers on the side (ears) are physically separated, allowing either self- or hybrid crosses, which has advanced breeding in agriculture and made maize the highest yielding grain. To further enable the improvement of grain quality, Miclaus et al. studied the architecture, expression, and epiregulation of a medium-size gene family, the alpha-zeins, in two maize haplotypes, B73 and BSSS53.
Image Credit: Mihai Miclaus (Waksman Institute of Microbiology)
Citation: (2011) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 7(6) June 2011. PLoS Genet 7(6): ev07.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v07.i06
Published: June 30, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Miclaus. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Millions of pollen grains are ready to fertilize the ovules of ears of maize. This is easy to control because male flowers on the top (tassel as seen) and female flowers on the side (ears) are physically separated, allowing either self- or hybrid crosses, which has advanced breeding in agriculture and made maize the highest yielding grain. To further enable the improvement of grain quality, Miclaus et al. studied the architecture, expression, and epiregulation of a medium-size gene family, the alpha-zeins, in two maize haplotypes, B73 and BSSS53.
Image Credit: Mihai Miclaus (Waksman Institute of Microbiology)